Surprise Package

by Kira Blakely

She needs a fiancé for Christmas, so I’ll pretend.
Hard not to when a gorgeous virgin walks into your strip club.
She’s thinks this is an escort service, and that I’m for hire.
Man is she in the wrong place.

Blair is everything I’m not.
Loving. Gentle. Family girl.
I’m rude, arrogant, and do what the fu@k I want.
Right now, I want her.
So, I’ll play the good fiancé.
Tell the family all the right things.
Kiss her in all the right ways.
And when we’re alone?
I’ll claim that sweet innocence.
Make her soul mine and her body tremble.
I don’t want it to end.
And I damn sure didn’t expect to feel this way.
After this, she’ll have more than just memories.
I have a special gift in mind.

All Kira Blakely novels include alphas who know what they want and know how to treat a lady. This is a full length standalone steamy Christmas romance novel. No cheating, no cliffhanger, and a guaranteed happily ever after.

Genres: Romance, Christmas, Holiday, Contemporary Romance, Humor, Billionaires, Fiction

220 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 17, 2017

About the author

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Reviews

[Lu Bielefeld · Rating 3 out of 5]

insta lust + insta love + virgin + evil/bitch/slut mom + misunderstood situation + Millionaire + painter +HEA + without ow/om involved + positive surprise + ok read

[Anas Attic Book Blog · Rating 2 out of 5]

Surprise Package by Kira Blakely
Standalone Christmas romance. Ends at 32%, Bonus books (not reviewed)

I love sexy Christmas books. It’s the one time of year I suspend all belief and love a cheesy instalove. Surprise Package by Kira Blakely has a ton of great reviews on Amazon (but strangely very few on goodreads), so I grabbed it.

Usually I put down a book I’m not enjoying, but when I bought it it had almost 300 reviews and a 4.7 average, so I thought it must be my mood. I read another book and came back to it. The first thing that really drove me BONKERS is Amazon says it has 220 pages, and doesn’t mention any bonus books. But this drove me crazy, I felt like I was reading and reading and not getting anywhere. How could I be at 13% when I read 79 pages? It ended at 32% and there were other stories after that I didn’t read.



Blair is a virgin in Harvard Law School. She hates law school, but her crazy controlling mother who is making her live the life she couldn’t, won’t let her leave school. So she walks into a strip club, thinking it’s a place that has male escorts, to hire a guy to come home for the holidays and pretend to be her fiancee so she could quit school and her mom wouldn’t worry about her. Samson is the bored millionaire who owns the club and he decided to go with it and pretended he’s an escort.

OMG, her mother was the most hateful woman, coming on to her daughter’s ‘fiancee’ non-stop, and lying about her parentage, all over her own boyfriend, ugh, she was almost a caricature of every hateful, narcissistic mother to ever appear in a book all rolled into one. And Blair just took it. I have no idea why.

“She’ll stay in Harvard. I gave up my dream for her, and now she’s going to damn well live it out. She doesn’t get to have her dream and follow her passion, with a husband, too! It’s not fair.” Regina stomped her foot on the tiles, then grappled with her robe.” <--This is her MOTHER

The sex was supposed to be hot, but it never really was for me, but maybe because I never got to know and like and root for the characters. I wanted to, I really did, but the dialog was really hard to follow. The editing was a mess, and there was a shit-ton of inconsistencies. He had brown eyes at the beginning, and by the end they were crystal blue. They lived in Boston, but bought a business in NY “close to home”.

The bones of the story had potential, but the execution was just not good to me. If you have read my reviews for a while, you know it’s super rare for me to write a negative review, but I struggle to find positives here except the cover.

Likes:

•I enjoy the fake fiancee trope usually.
•The cover. I LOVE it.

Dislikes:

•Bad editing.
•A bunch of story inconsistencies.
•Her mom was like a cartoon of the worst mothers.
•She was a doormat, letting her crazy mom get away with murder.
•The dialogue left much to be desired.
•It was steamy, but the sex scenes didn’t keep my interest at all.

The Down and Dirty:

I hate to be negative, but it’s a miracle I finished this book. I almost put it down so many times, but decided to stick it out, especially because I wanted to see what happened with the whole page count/percentage discrepancy. It took me like 6 days to read this novella because I just kept going on facebook and not wanting to read at all; but now I am thinking it may have been the book and not me, because I am reading just fine now.

Rating: 2 stars, 4.5 Heat

[Dita · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ooooh I love this book, definitely one of my fav books from Kira Blakely.
A fun hot fake fiance romance book. Yes this one absolutely my cup of tea.
It's fun, it's hot, plenty drama, there's some frustrating moments and plenty of love. So yeah of course I love it.

As for characters. Loveeee Samson, he's the man that's gonna take what he wants, always do what he wants to do, and always up for the challenge. And love the way he supports and defends Blair.
And Blair, I want to slap some senses to her sometimes, but totally understand her, well with a crazy mother like that, I can't blame this girl. But still I admire the way she stands up for her dreams.
I love this couple, their banters bring all the fun and laughters, and I love those flirty moments between these two and let's not forget those steamy hot stuff too, they got me hot and bothered.

If you love fake fiance romance, this book is definitely for you.

*I voluntarily received a review copy of this book

[Sara Oxton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Surprise Package by Kira Blakely a full package of a five-star read. I am a huge fan of Kira Blakely and would happily read her shopping lists, but this may just be my favourite or hers. Blair Scott could have been a character who has everything, wealthy family and in law school but sometimes life isn’t what it seems on the surface. Just like Samson Barnes he is a successful business man owner of several businesses including strip clubs, so you would imagine him one way but he steps up when a young woman walks into one of his clubs he steps up and agrees to help her, for a price. Just not the price she thinks she’s paying. This was such a strong story, there was a great plot line and the story sucked you in and you end up not being able to put this story down until you are finished and wishing there were more pages. Well done Kira on a great story.

[BP34 · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book and found it hard to put down. Kira has another winner - IMO. Well written with characters you'll adore. It another billionaire/virgin story but with some different twists. Samson and Blair meet when she walks into his strip club asking to hire him as a pretend fiance. He plays along with her, after all it's only for the holidays. Blair's mother is something else and you can see why Blair had hangups. Both have commitment issues. The holiday weekend at Blair's house is hilarious and has more twists than a roller coaster. I read an advance copy of this book and enjoyed it so much that I voluntarily chose to write a review. Grab this one now, you wont be disappointed.

[Lena · Rating 5 out of 5]

It’s a quicky - a hot one. Make sure nothing is going to disturbe you reading this.
It’s kind of a farytale that you want to be part of. Blair + Samson = swooning
Kira’s done it again.

I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.

[Karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book we have you felling a few different emotions
It will have you laughing in parts and mad in other parts.
There's a few twists you don't see coming which keeps you
turning the pages to see how it ends.
I voluntarily reviewed an advance reader copy of this book.

[Becky · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent read with good characters, unrealistic storyline. Go into this thinking fairytale when reading this. Girl with wicked mom meets secret Prince charming falls in Insta love.
2.5 stars

[Pelusa Rivera · Rating 3 out of 5]

Received an ARC at no cost to the author. I enjoyed book. I liked myself some Samson, he was a sweetie, and I loved how he dealt with Blair's nasty mother. It is unfortunate that their are mothers out their that do act that way, they have no business being a mother. There were times that I wanted to shake Blair and tell her to snap out of it, grow up and not to let Samson out of her sight, he wa the best thing to happen to her. I wont give the details, you all know I hate when spoilers are given, so I wont do it, but I request that you do read it. Enjoy!

[Karen Sedgman · Rating 4 out of 5]

This Surprise Package, was Insta Attraction, Insta Lust, and Insta Love!
Blair & Samson are perfect! Blair hired Samson to be her fake Fiance for Christmas and she got more than she bargain for! But her Mum Arrr she was just arrr no words!!! Awesome ending though!

[Liz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Girl needs a fake fiance to take home for Christmas to convince her mother that she can drop out of law school and paint and the man will take care of her. Is this 1950?

Filled with lots of sex and little depth of character. Exactly what you'd expect.

[Katie Dickey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Festive and feisty

At first I found myself complaining about the amount of angst and sex, and lack of depth. Then I realized I was finished with the book in just 3 days. The chemistry was off the charts, the characters were likeable, and the story was more original than this cliché. Great read for a hot Christmas story.

[Cass the Moody Reader · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF

Ugh it was good up until couple had sex then it just fell flat.
This may have just been me though....

[Meghan · Rating 2 out of 5]

*2.5 stars*

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sometimes characters grab you from the beginning and don't let go. That's the way I felt about this story. I loved reading about Blair and Samson's building attraction to each other and where their relationship traveled to. Great chemistry and a fun read!

[Halie M Vaughan · Rating 1 out of 5]

Awful

I’m not sure how this book received the ratings it did. The characters were not very developed and the dialogue was stilted. The premise had some appeal but it just became unreadable. I don’t usually quit on books I start but I truly couldn’t finish it. The language was an unimaginative , the sex scenes were long and drawn out and crude.
The idea that this bright young woman would hire a supposed “hooker” not having any information on him takes him to her mothers’s house and gets in to bed with him without any qualms and lets him go down on her. Did I mention she was supposed to be a virgin.

[Julianne Macneil · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book as part of an arc program. I loved this story. I loved Samson right from the start, he met Blair by accident when she entered the wrong building looking for a male escort company. Blair was going to hire an escort to play her fiancé at Christmas so she could convince her mother she was going to quit college to become an artist and she would have a man to take care of her. Samson sees Blair and he thinks she could be the answer to his boredom. Samson is quite successful and has become bored with the playboy lifestyle. When he sees Blair, she catches his attention and thinks playing her fiancé would be fun so he doesn't tell her about her mistake. This was a really enjoyable story and I laughed throughout at some of the thoughts Samson has. There was great chemistry between Blair and Samson leading to some really steamy scenes. I loved how Samson accepted his feelings for Blair and wanted her dreams to come true. Another great one from Kira.

[Laila Viking · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well written book with great storyline and plot. A bit different than the usual of this type of bad boy/virgin books. Blair is in the need of a fake fiancée. She meets Samson and hires him. But she has misunderstood some things and on their journey to becoming a couple in a real relationship they both have to make changes. They help each other more than they know.
Lots of chemistry and hot scenes. I like the main characters and how they develop. The story flows nicely and it is very captivating from first to last chapter. I like it is written in dual POV. That gives a lot more to the story. I like it has an epilogue.
The author has delivered a story that is worth the read!

I received a copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.

[Bev Ross · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome book!

I really liked this story! Charlotte was a really good girl and I don't think she knew what she was getting into! Very entertaining and romantic story!

[Cailin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was completely enamoured!

This was actually a surprisingly beautiful holiday love story, though the story itself will definitely be a delight the whole year through.The characters were perfect together, and not just their blazing attraction; Blair and Samson's personalities just worked so well together. You cant help but adore and root for them!

[Maggie2u2000 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely loved this book

I absolutely loved everything about this book. It was hot and steamy and drama rolled into one. I'm planning to read more from this author. Great job

[JoAnne Carr · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am voluntarily writing this review for this book I received through arc.

Samson owned a couple of strip clubs. Then in walks a women who he thinks is there for an audition. But, she surprised him when she produces a card with the name Big Dick Escort. Blair tells him why she needs to hire an escort for the Christmas weekend he tells her that he would take the job. Blair takes Samson to her mother's house for the weekend her mom promptly starts flirting with him.

Blair and Samson makes their way to the restaurant for dinner. When they get there the fun begins questions are being thrown around. Blair and Samson are going hot and heavy and each thought how the weekend would end. Samson realized that he had fallen under her spell.

Things go from bad to worse when confronted by Blair about a picture she found a picture of her father. She then tells Blair that her father had been dead since she was 10 years old. Then it hits the fan on Christmas when her mother's boyfriend overheard the conversation between Blair and Samson about him being an escort.

Blair's mom is screaming to get out of her house. He goes and tells Blair the truth about him being a business. Blair also throws him out of the house because she thought Samson only wanted to have sex with her. Samson leaves frustrated how things turned out he wanted to tell her that he was in love with her.

Blair and her mother get into yet another fight about Blair leaving law school to become an artist. Blair's mother told her that she would disown her if she didn't go back to law school.

Twists, turns and mayhem will Samson and Blair get back together? Will she strike out on her own without Samson? Guess you will have to read the book.

[Judy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This story is about a Harvard law student, Blair who is anything but happy about being there and Samson who is a self made businessman of strip clubs and hotels. Samson has worked very hard to become successful as his life growing up was not loving. Blair has always wanted to be an artist and her very self absorbed mother has been dead set against it. Her mother has also told her lie up lie about knowing who her father really is! Blair’s one way to get out of law school is to bring home a finance, fake and hired. Blair literally walks into Samson in his business not realizing where she really is and he plays along with what she needs. Does he do it out of boredom or is there a real connection worth exploring. Either way they make their way to her mother’s mansion for the Christmas holiday. Once there Samson sees what Blair is really against with her mother and does what he can to protect and help her get her dream of becoming an artist. Blair, her mother and Samson had all told untruths and lies along the way. Will these come back and hurt those relationships and can they truly heal from them? You will despise Blair’s mother and how she only thinks of herself and never really sees Blair for the person she is. Samson is a man who knows what Blair needs and sets out to do just that, will Blair take the step to meet him? This is a fast pace love story that one alpha man does what he wants to try and get his woman and a young woman set out to become the artist she knows she can be. I enjoyed the ending and how Blair finally found her happiness in more than one part of her life! I voluntarily reviewed an Advanced Reader Copy of this book.

[Raecharmed · Rating 5 out of 5]

Blair's mom wants her to be a lawyer but Blair hates it and being at Harvard. So just before the holidays Blair goes looking for an escort to pay to pretend to be her fiancé so she can finally quit school. Her mom tells her its either school or getting married there's no in between so Blair will work the choices to her advantage. What she didn't know is the guy she thought was an escort isn't one at all he actually owns his own business. When Samson saw Blair for the first time he knew he was going to make her his so he let her think he was an escort so she wouldn't go elsewhere. However he never counted on all the family drama that would occur during their visit. Blair didn't expect to have feelings for Samson but it wasn't long before she gave in to him and finally lost her virginity. Her mother is just a nasty jealousy person that wants to force her dreams on Blair and its hard for Samson to watch so he lets his opinion out especially after seeing some of Blair's art. But will Blair choose her mother over Samson when it comes down to it?

I loved this book I couldn't out it down once I started it. Samson is such an alpha male that he wants to make sure Blair's every wish or dream is fulfilled. The chemistry between Samson and Blair is scorching hot. If you haven't read anything by Kira Blakely then this book would be a great start.

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

[Tabatha Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love, love, loved Surprise Package!! My favorite quote from the book has to be Sampson telling Blair “We’re that connection. We're something more. You’re mine.” Swoon worthy and just melts your heart.

Sampson was this sarcastic, gorgeous millionaire businessman that had become bored with his life. In walks a dream and he’ll do anything to get to know Blair. Blair and Sampson meet when she offers Sampson what she thought was a job as her fake fiancé for the weekend so that she could trick her overbearing and controlling mother into believing they’re engaged so that she can drop out of school. Unknown to her is that she has made a mistake and Sampson isn’t who she thinks he is. Going along with what Blair is offering, Sampson finds that piece of himself that he’s been missing and will do anything to have Blair. Lies come out and it could ruin everything, but Sampson works to regain Blair’s trust and in the end they get their happily ever after.

I voluntarily accepted an ARC of Surprise Package for my review. I can’t say enough about Kira Blakely and how she can write a book that captures her readers attention, draws them into the story and has them forgetting everything but finishing the book. Surprise Package is another fantastic example of her amazing talent!

[Danielle Maroon · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am voluntarily writing a review for this book for receiving an ARC.

Blair's entire life has been mapped by her mother and she is finally ready to accomplish her dream of being an artist. To complete her plan, she hires, whom she believes is, an escort.

Blair shows up at one of Samson's clubs in search of an escort. She doesn't know who he really is and he doesn't tell her but he knows he can't let her go. So Samson agrees to be her pretend fiance.

What will happen between Blair and Samson as they pretend to be in love for her mother? Will Blair and Samson both find something they didn't think would be possible? I absolutely loved this story and could not wait to read what happened next. I love the characters and the back story that Kira Blakely created. They both had obstacles they never believed they would overcome. Sometimes a weekend home for Christmas may not be what you expect.

[Sharon Richmond · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really Cool Sexy Christmas Love Story

Blair's character is funny and adorable but you can sense her insecurities about herself and life in general. Her desperation to get through her Mom's Christmas weekend sends her to a wrong address, and her encounter with the man inside is the start of one crazy story.

Samson's character is the wealthy, strong, sexy, 100% all growl worthy male, lol. Yet in here he'll play a hired escort for a woman who has set his mind and body on fire.

What happens over the weekend and the characters you'll meet will both shock you, leave you rolling your eyes and laughing at times.
But it's what happens between Samson and Blair that sets the book on fire.

Mature readers, strong language and sexual content.

I have voluntarily read and reviewed this book by uts author.
Reviewer for Nook Books and More Blog.

Bonus Stories Included!!

R/R 11/23/17

[MJM · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another book by Kira Blakely? Got to be a winner as all her other books that I've read have been. And, YES, it is. This is a fun packed story about a young woman, Blair, who seems to have everything - family, wealth, health but she has a difficult mother who does not want her to go to art college. In fact nothing seems to please Regine. An easy fix for Christmas would be for Blair to have a fiancée that would take the heat of her mother's nagging. So Blair walks into a strip club looking to hire an escort to play her fiancée for the holidays. Now Samson, the alpha handsome wealthy owner of the club and other businesses sees her and she is just not what he is used to. But he wants to find out about her and offers to help her on one condition. But you're going to have to buy the book to find out what it is and how the holiday season plays out for them. The chemistry between them practically sizzles and sending sparks between them and it just gets hotter as the story plays out. Both Blair and Samson are going to find that what they started is going to end up way more than they first anticipated. It's a joy to read, with humour, innuendo, lots of delicious flirting with hot and heavy scenes that you won't want to miss as this is a MUST READ. I received an arc of this book and voluntarily leave my honest review of it here.
DEFINITELY RECOMMENDED.

[JJ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Blair Scott is desperate. She needs a fiance' for the Christmas weekend so she enters what she thinks is an escort service. The first person she comes into contact with is Samson Barnes. Samson is bored. Nothing interests him these days. He has plenty of money...plenty of women and, well, plenty of anything he wants - that is until Blair makes him an offer he can't refuse. He is intrigued and takes her up on her offer without telling her who he really is. The following day they travel to her mother's home for the holiday weekend. Blair has a plan and her mother is not going to like it...but the readers will!!! To say it is an interesting weekend, is an understatement. So much takes place in such a very short period of time but Samson and Blair make good use of their time and keep the readers very interested.

The story evoked many strong and powerful emotions. I found the characters to be a wonderful and eclectic mix...a little bit of everything you could imagine and some you might not expect but it works beautifully and I have to say I loved every bit of it. I laughed, sighed, swooned, ohhh'd and ahhh'd...wanted to do bodily harm to mommy dearest and the end...well, you won't see it coming.

Kira Blakely and Emily Bishop are a force to be reckoned with. As a recipient of an advanced reader copy of the book I am pleased to say these ladies have given readers a story they will enjoy.

[Millie Rosa · Rating 5 out of 5]

From start to finish this book will hook you up! There is no slow part in it. A complete page turner. Is super hot, great steamy scenes descriptions and the characters are well developed. I want a Samson for myself.

Samson is bored with his life. He is a millionaire businessman, he have different kind of business including strip clubs. One day at one of his strip clubs a gorgeous woman mistake him for an escort and asked him to be her fake fiancee for the Christmas weekend. Bored out of his mind and curious about her, he accepts. She is beautiful, innocent and he have to have her. For a strange reason he feels the need to help her even from her own mother. But it just for the weekend, he don't do relationships and gets bored very easily with women. She will be no different, right?

Blair needs a man to be her fake fiancee, that way her mother will let her drop of Harvard, she don't want to be a lawyer, she wants to be an artist. Thats why she is going to hire an escort to be her fake fiancee for the Christmas weekend. He will go with her to her mother's house and play the part. She hired Samson he is hot as sin and she feel an overwhelming attraction towards him. But this is a business transaction that do not includes sex with the escort or feelings. Now she just have to make herself believe it, enough problems she already have with her mother. The weekend will be very hard for her.

I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book